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NH2-terminal globular domain of human platelet glycoprotein Ib alpha has a methionine 145/threonine145 amino acid polymorphism, which is associated with the HPA-2 (Ko) alloantigens.
The Journal of clinical investigation - 1 Feb 1992
Kuijpers R W, Faber N M, Cuypers H T, Ouwehand W H, von dem Borne A E
Abstract excerpt
The glycoprotein (GP) Ib/IX complex, a prominent platelet GP complex, is the primary receptor for vWF. Previously, we have established that an antigenic polymorphism of platelets, the HPA-2 or Ko alloantigen system, is located on the 45-kD amino-terminal globular domain of GPIb alpha. With the polymerase chain reaction, we have amplified two segments of the GPIb alpha gene coding for the first 382 amino acids of...
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